Comments on: Medtronic Insulin Pump Lawsuit: Recall of Quick-Set Infusions Sets for MiniMed Paradigm Insulin Pumps

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:34:29 +0000

My son has had this happen several times and it seems to be the quick sets. Sometimes when I prime them it won’t go through and if you take the needle out of the reservoir and reinsert it then it works. Usually a large dose of insuline squirts out then. Sometimes it just won’t prime and then all of a sudden primes on it’s own. I think this happens and sometimes no alerts go off or he’s sleeping and doesn’t hear or feel the alert and then he’s getting no insulin and ends up with high sugars. Other times I believe it doesn’t come out then a large dose spurts out all at once and it causes lows. I don’t believe they’ve fixed the issues regarding these quick sets at all. I even called about this in July of 2010 and they sent new sets but haven’t fixed the issue in my opinion because it is still happening and his numbers have been quite erradic this past 8 months or so. His A1c was always good and that’s been higher also. Will be keeping any sets he removes if he gets any alerts and not sending them in to medtronic in case I need them for a lawsuit in the future. Thank god we have been able to fix his highs and lows without hospitalization but these swings in blood sugar are bad for his entire body. Thinking about putting him back on the shots though I know he will be very disappointed as he loves having the pump.

By: Faye

Faye — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:32:27 +0000

On 11/2/11 I was hospitalized for high blood sugars and dehydration for the fist time in 20 years. I was on the phone with MiniMed for 45 min yesterday asking for help and not once did they say anything about this problem and I am using lot 2. This is very scary and stressful.

By: Paulette

Paulette — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:03:16 +0000

My son has been using the Medtronic for 5 years. He has experienced many lows which caused ER visits. He would seize and dislocate one or both of his shoulders. He had surgery on one and is planning surgery for the other. I cannot say that his lows were caused by the Medtronic, however, weeks prior to the recall, he suffered 1-2 seizures a week. I am upset that I (or my son) did not investigate the situation further. I came to this site when I was checking on the J&J pump recall. You feel helpless in this situation because diabetics are dependant on these and other medical supplies. I won’t even go into how the drug companies’ main revenue is from diabetic supplies. Will there ever be a cure when the companies prosper so much from the disease?

By: Jeanette

Jeanette — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:55:26 +0000

My nephew passed away on August 22, 2009! He had the medtronic insulin pump for one year, and was in the ICU five times during that time. He was only 14 years old at the time. His sugar was over 1200. Medtronics needs to pay!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:19:28 +0000

My son Kevin died November 8. 2008 This was before the recall. I did everything in my power to let the FDA know something was wrong. Medtronic didnt even care. I hate them.They have causrd our family terrible pain. My son was in the prime of his life. Kevin onhly had the pump for about a year and a half. I didn’t want him to get one but he was old enough to make his own choices. When he died his blod sugar was 1164. Yes , he lived alone went into a coma and died.Stay away from anything made by medtronic

By: c lemon

c lemon — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:53:09 +0000

I had the same problem with the tubing in 2010. My high blood sugars developed suddenly .It took about 2day for me to be right. I had to take several syringe injections. Now the insertion site cannula issue this is my 2nd time with this problem just recently 08/07/11. After several syringe injections having to go to work feeling lousy,tired no energy hard time focusing I had to leave workearly I came home change the site and found the cannula bent. the first time this happened it never inserted under my skin. What the heck is going on? Medtronic should be more responsible to their users.They provide a life sustaining service which I know i depend on.I now know I have to pay closer-much closer attention to my symptoms even though i have been a pump user for over 13 years.

By: Britanny

Britanny — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:01:17 +0000

I am 42 and have been on the medtronic paradigm for 2 weeks, and I have felt terrible. I and my rep (who is great, by the way) have changed by basal/bolus rates often, but we are now thinking that it’s my absorption that is the problem. After 30 years of giving shots (mainly in my stomach) I have much scarring. I don’t like not knowing if the place I am putting my canula is a place with scar tissue or not – how am I to know? My sugars last night went above 500 and this is horrible to me! I feel like having been on the pump for two weeks, may have caused me tissue damage that I was able to avoid during 30 years of insulin shots. Maybe I should to back to shots? The worst part is the severe lows, and having days when my blood sugar would go from one extreme to another. I am very frustrated with my pump and don’t know what I should do. I apologize that I am just kind of rambling right now.

By: Marjorie

Marjorie — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 05:50:57 +0000

I was in the hosp. in 2005 with DKA. My sugar lived in the 300-400′s. Initialli in the hosp. I left the pump on me, and my #”s were still awful. the doctor had me to detatch and began shots. My #’s came down and I was home in about a week. Started pumping again and my #’s were crazy until about 2010. My sugar is still high at times but not as bad. Just wondering if the effects I still have today is related to the pump? Could I still hace a claim? Wondering about the statute of limitations in OH since this was 2005?
I stay mentally “foggy,” no stamina and my husband has to help with the house. Luckily, I’m in a career that I can sit at my desk and still do my work, though those around me are not aware of just how bad I am feeling.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:22:15 +0000

I had many very high sugars, above 500, the candula would bend. My dr. finally took me off the pump.This was very exp. with all the med bills and now that the problem is supposed to have been fixed, they only will allow me $500 on a new pump. Hell no, and I guess I will stay on the needle 4 times or more a day. Thank you for letting me vent.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 25 May 2011 04:45:53 +0000

Tiffany, I’ve had a similar problem with the Quick Set infusion sets and not using the insertion device, which I was told was not needed.